C1C2PART XI HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. XI (ss. 345–400): power to apply certain functions conferred by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 65(2)(4)

C2

Pt. XI (ss. 345-400) applied (17.12.1996) by 1996 c. 53, s. 90(b); S.I. 1996/2842, art. 3 (with transitional, supplementary and saving provisions in arts. 5-8)

Overcrowding

364 Power to require information where notice in force.

1

The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—

a

the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;

b

the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;

c

the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;

d

the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.

2

A person who—

a

knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or

b

furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,

commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.